"Blackerthreetracker" is a single by

alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commerci ...

band

Curve In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that ...

, preceding the issue of their second studio album, ''

Cuckoo Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separ ...

''. It was released on 23 August 1993 and it reached #39 in the

UK singles chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

. It includes the song "Missing Link", the first track from ''

''. "Blackerthreetracker" was released at the same time with the remix CD, "Blackerthreetrackertwo".

Track listing

Blackerthreetracker

*12", CD, MC #"Missing Link" – 4:19 #"On the Wheel" – 6:01 #"Triumph" – 4:50

Blackerthreetrackertwo

*CD #"Missing Link" (Screaming Bird mix) – 6:22 #"Rising" (Headspace mix) – 9:21 #"Half the Time" (Honey Tongue mix) – 6:18

Music video

A music video was made for "Missing Link" which featured the official and touring members of the band performing this song in a rainy wasteland. The video was shown in the '' Beavis and Butt-head'' episode "Water Safety", where the duo comments that the video was "pretty cool".

Credits

* Written by

Toni Halliday Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the alternative rock band Curve, along with Dean Garcia. She was also a member of the bands Photofitz ...

and

Dean Garcia Dean Garcia (born 3 May 1958) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a member of the alternative rock duo Curve from 1990 to 2005. He also released solo work and collaborated with many other artists. Biography Garcia was ...

* "Missing Link" produced by Curve &

Flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

and mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent for SSO * Tracks 2 & 3 produced and mixed by Curve, * Sleeve designed by Flat Earth * Photography by Flat Earth and Vaughan Matthews

References

{{authority control 1993 singles Curve (band) songs 1993 songs Song recordings produced by Flood (producer) Songs written by Dean Garcia Songs written by Toni Halliday